Peripheral Canal - Would building a peripheral canal around the Delta revive the threatened ecosystem and ensure a reliable water supply for California? Authors of a recent study say yes, but many enviornmental groups disagree. Today on Insight, you'll hear the pros and cons of the issue. Fish Hatchery for Smelt - Could a fish hatchery save the Delta Smelt? And is it worth it? We'll talk with experts about possible ways to save the endangered smelt. Joe Craven - David Watts Barton talks with...
Topics: peripheral canal, California Delta, water supply, fish hatchery, Delta Smelt, endangered species,...

Robert Johnson Jr. from Californians Against the Canal (www.stopcanal.org) fills us in on the lies and deceptions being propagated from politicians in the pockets of big ag about the need for a Peripheral Canal. He offers solutions and asks for your support.
Topic: Robert Johnson, Canal, Peripheral Canal, californians against the canal, stop canal, deceptions

Judy Goldhaft is a cofounder of Planet Drum Foundation in San Francisco, and was previously one of the band of radicals known as the San Francisco Diggers. She also helped start the Frisco Bay Mussel Group in the late 1970s and has been in the middle of the emeregnce of bioregionalism. She is interviewed here as part of the wide-ranging "Ecology Emerges" oral histories of the early ecology movement, traversing the era from the 1950s-60s all the way to the present.
Topics: Diggers, Planet Drum, ecology, bioregionalism, Frisco Bay Mussel Group, water, peripheral canal

Topics: California. Dept. of Water Resources, California State Water Project, Water resources development...

Farid Senzai-Farid Senzai is a leading expert on Muslim/Middle East-U.S. relations, whose family dramatically escaped from Afghanistan when Farid was a child. His wife Naheed captured the story of their escape in "Shooting Kabul," an award-winning novel loosely based on Farid's experience. Farid is a guest at the upcoming "Evening with the STARS" gala, held by the San Juan Education Foundation. He and Naheed are here with us today to talk about their experiences in the...
Topics: Insight, KXJZ, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento public radio, CSU Sacramento, Jan Kiepura, sound...

Topics: Brower, David Ross, 1912-2000, Sierra Club, International Physiological Expedition to Antarctica,...

Peter Berg was one of the original San Francisco Diggers and went on to co-found the Planet Drum Foundation. He was at the first UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm Sweden in 1972, was one of the originators of Bioregionalism, and has been at the heart of many ecological battles, including California's Peripheral Canal. This is part of the "Ecology Emerges" oral history interview collection by Shaping San Francisco, tracing the arc of environmental activism from conservation...
Topics: ecology, Ecology Emerges, bioregionalism, watersheds, Peripheral Canal, Diggers